Chalk Bluff Crossing and Town

Crowley's Ridge provided the only natural route for north-south travel across the lowlands of northeastern Arkansas, so an Indian trail and later a military road crossed the river here. About 1840 Abraham Seitz established a ferry that was later operated by Timothy Dalton. A town grew up near the crossing, but it faded away after 1882 when the railroad bridged the river downstream at the new town of St. Francis.

Arkansas · United States